The article "True Innovation", by Jon Gertner, shows a typical American technology company- Bell Labs. The author talks about some achievements of Bell Labs, and then states some elements about the culture of creativity that Mervin Kelly was most responsible for. At last, author discusses the relationship between innovation and economics.
I strongly agree with the Mr. Kelly's viewpoint that freedom is crucial. With the development of economics, most of companies are involved in dogmatic models in order to keep the high efficiency. Even though the companies achieve much profit, they are also trapped in difficulty to have a qualitative change with lacking creativities. It is one of the reasons that some companies can't become enterprises. Freedom can make employees achieve the goals through different ways, and it can also make employer discover how to improve the company in a correct way. The most important thing is that freedom doesn't focus on the form instead of the truly mental freedom.
Secondly, dogmatism gives employees higher stress, which may decrease the efficiency and cause some negative influence. The typical example is Fujitsu, a globe ICT from Japan. The company limited the marriage of employees; if two employees want to get married, they can't work in the same city. And 8 hours standard work-time exist in name only; employees had to overtime work every day, even on weekends. This kind of high-stress style caused employee serial suicide, which led to a social extensive attention.
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